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· The U.S.
Department of the Treasury announced March 12 that over 3,000 victims have lost
$15.5 million in a tax scheme in which scammers claiming to be IRS agents call
taxpayers stating they owe taxes, convincing them to pay. – Associated Press
See
item 2 below in the Financial Services Sector

· A
semi-truck carrying approximately 42,000 pounds of Triazine overturned on U.S.
Highway 40 on Rabbit Ears Pass in Colorado, spilling nearly its entire load and
shutting down the highway for over 7 hours March 12-March 13. – Steamboat
Springs Pilot & Today

3. March
13, Steamboat Springs Pilot & Today – (Colorado) Tanker
rollover closes U.S. Highway 40 on Rabbit Ears Pass. A semi-truck carrying
approximately 42,000 pounds of Triazine, a hazardous liquid chemical,
overturned on U.S. Highway 40 on Rabbit Ears Pass spilling nearly its entire
load and shutting down the highway for over 7 hours March 12-March 13 while a
HAZMAT crew responded to the scene. Officials were notified of the spill and
the cause of the crash remains under investigation. Source: http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2015/mar/12/tanker-rollover-closes-us-highway-40-rabbit-ears-p/

· The
Kansas Department of Agriculture instituted quarantine in two Kansas counties
March 12 in response to recently confirmed cases of H5N2 highly pathogenic
avian influenza near Asbury, Missouri, and in northwest Arkansas. – KCUR
89.3 FM Kansas City

8. March
13, KCUR 89.3 FM Kansas City – (Kansas) Avian influenza prompts
poultry quarantine in southeast Kansas. The Kansas Department of
Agriculture instituted a quarantine in Crawford and Cherokee counties March 12
in response to recently confirmed cases of H5N2 highly pathogenic avian
influenza near Asbury, Missouri and in northwest Arkansas. The quarantine
requires an official permit to move live poultry or poultry products in and out
of the designated zones, and officials have been dispatched for surveillance.
Source: http://kcur.org/post/avian-influenza-prompts-poultry-quarantine-southeast-kansas

· The San
Jacinto River Authority reported that 300,000 gallons of household wastewater
spilled March 11 from a collapsed manhole and entered a nearby drainage ditch
in The Woodlands, Texas. – Woodlands Villager

2. March 12,
Associated Press – (National) Fake IRS agents target 366,000 in massive tax
scam. An official at the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced March 12
that over 3,000 victims have lost $15.5 million in a tax scam targeting over
366,000 nationwide, in which scammers purporting to be Internal Revenue Service
agents call taxpayers claiming that they owe taxes and must pay or risk arrest,
deportation, or the loss of a business or driver’s license. Two individuals in
Florida have been arrested in connection to the scheme. Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/fake-irs-agents-target-366-000-massive-tax-scam-n322201

Information Technology Sector

17. March 13,
Softpedia – (International) Google leaks Whois data for over 282,000
protected domains. Cisco Systems’ Talos researchers reported to Google that
private information such as names, physical and email addresses, and phone
numbers belonging to 282,867 domains registered through Google Apps’ registrar,
eNom, were leaked for nearly two years due to a software defect that did not
extend the company’s unlisted registration service, potentially exposing them
to spam, spear-phishing attacks, or identity theft. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Leaks-Whois-Data-for-Over-282-000-Protected-Domains-475710.shtml

18. March 13,
Softpedia – (International) TeslaCrypt ransomware encrypts files of over
20 games. Security researchers at Bromium discovered that crypto-ransomware
dubbed TeslaCrypt has targeted a total of 185 extensions in over 20 popular
games with drive-by attacks through Adobe Flash Player and Internet Explorer
exploits dropped by the Angler exploit kit. The malware apparently attempts to
pass as the more infamous CryptoLocker, but researchers stated that the two
variants only share 8 percent similarity. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/TeslaCrypt-Ransomware-Encrypts-Files-of-Over-20-Games-475738.shtml

21. March 12,
The Register – (International) Forget viruses: Evil USB drive ‘fries laptops
with a power surge’. A Russian security researcher revealed a vulnerability
with USB sticks which could potentially overload and damage a PC’s sensitive
inner electronics by using an inverted direct current to direct current (DC-DC)
converter and some capacitors through a foreign Web site, causing the USB to
malfunction. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/12/usb_drive_fry_your_laptop/

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U.S. Army Retired Chief Warrant Officer with more than 40 years in information technology and 35 years in information security. Became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional in 1995 and have taught computer security in Asia, Canada and the United States. Wrote a computer security column for 5 years in the 1980s titled "for the Sake Of Security", penname R. E. (Bob) Johnston, which was published in Computer Decisions.
Motto: "When entrusted to process, you are obligated to safeguard"